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I’ve hit a wall. Honestly, I’ve been hitting this exact same wall over and over again for months now. Don’t get me wrong—what started as unexpectedly running into this wall has turned into judo-chopping, karate-kicking, and occasionally running full-speed at it—but it’s the same stone wall every single time. It doesn’t matter how many different ways I try to move it, it doesn’t budge. I am in an intensely uncomfortable season of learning and unlearning. If you haven’t reached this […]

Hectic. Transitioning is hectic. It isn’t just the fact that I uprooted from my home away from home in Columbus and shuffled back into the hustle and bustle of life with my parents. It’s not simply because I miss my life-long dance partners from my graduating class more than life itself. The weight doesn’t fall on the sheer fact that there is no roadmap for starting my dance career, or the fact that I feel like I’ve been thrown into […]

A mere nineteen days ago thousands of Buckeyes donned their graduation gowns and their fanciest caps to grab their degrees. To be honest, when I sat down I thought it’d been at least a month. Post-grad is weird. Personally, I’m not having the easiest time processing this transition just yet. I’m still in my “Netflix all day” stages of relaxation with only fleeting ideas of a plan for my future swirling around in my mind. Although I’m choosing not to […]

Let’s get candid about my senior project. Over the course of the past five or so months, I’ve been asked to talk to numerous people about my senior project. Groups of people ranging from auditionees to faculty have heard me talk about the work I aim to create, why I’m creating the work, and how I got to this idea. I’ve written numerous grants, abstracts, and journal entries about this work and why it’s important to me and to the […]

Seven out of eight semesters completed — 2016 coming to a close — means time to reflect. I am halfway finished with my final year of undergrad. It was a hurricane, tornado, whirlwind to say the least. It was the same ol’ juggling trick college has always been with looming future in my rearview mirror and a doozy of a senior project to settle into (in addition to working part-time, classes, internships, personal projects and a social life). It was long and […]

It’s crazy to think that I’ve already gone to my last first football game, performed in my first show of the school year and started rehearsals for my final Dance Downtown. When everyone got back to campus I actually felt old. I was walking through a sea of 18 year olds with their families and I was just in awe of the simple fact that I was in their shoes three years ago. It’s hard to see it when it’s […]

Happy full moon + summer solstice everyone! I don’t know a lot about astrology, but I’ve been trying to gain more knowledge because I don’t think it’s possible for there to be planets out there that have absolutely no effect on us on Earth. So, to share the importance of this period of time I am going to include a Twitter thread from Brittany Josephina, @brittanyphina on Twitter and the face behind Brittspiration.com, to further explain this very restorative period of […]

Warning: This is a rather lengthy post but it is so, so worth it. It’s been about a two months since we returned to Columbus from Salvador, Bahia. In that time I’ve completed my third year of undergrad and jumpstarted my senior project… my senior project. Already. We stepped foot onto campus at a time that shows no mercy—the end of the semester—and with that said, I hadn’t been able to write about the most momentous experience of my life thus […]

How is it even possible that I am laying in my bed back home in Chicago finally relaxing for the first time since winter break? It feels like I just went through orientation yesterday, how am I finished with my junior year of college? I was just rocking my only Ohio State T-shirt around the halls of Whitney Young Magnet High School on Decision Day, how on earth am I preparing for my senior year already?! Year three: The year […]